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E. B. MANNING.

Tea and Cofie Pot.

No. 81.186. Patented Aug. 18, 1868.

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E. B. MANNIZNG, OF MIDDL'ETOWN, CONNECTICUT.

Ietters Patent No. 81,186, dated August 18, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN TEA AND COFFEE-POTS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: 1

Be it known that I, E. B. MANNING, of Middletown, in theco'unty of Middlesex, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Ten. and coifeerPots; and I do hereby declare the follo'wing,when takeujn connection with the accompanying drawings, and the letters ofrcfere'nce marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and

exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in'- I accompanying drawings.

Figure, 1 aside view, and in v Figure 2 a vertical central section. This invention relates to an improvement in the common Britannia or metal pots.- It is a well-known and admitted fact that tea steeped in metal is more or less deleteriously affected by the metal, (so much so theta popular objection exists to metallic tea-elrawers,) yet to earthen vessels for this purpose, the liability to breakage creates an objection. My invention, the object of which is to overcome thesedifli'culties and combine in one the advantages of both, consists in a hard-metal body lined with porcelain or, similar material hardened thereon, and after being so lined, the body is covered with a softer metal, as Britannia or tin. i v To enable others to construct my improvement, I will proceed to describe the same as illustrated in the I constructs. body of any desired form, according to the taste ofthe manufacturer or requirements of the trade, as denoted insolid black, fig. 2, then line the body with the clay while in ,a plastic state, as denoted in red, fig. 2, and bake in the usual manner to harden the lining. Thus finished, I cover ,the outside of the iron body with a softer metal, as Britannia or tin, spinning the soft metal thereon so as to conform to,the iron body, as denoted'in yellow, fig. 3; the spinning process giving all the security necessary for securing the outer coating of metal. I then perforate the outer metal body at the spent, to correspond to the perforations made in the iron and porcelain before the baking process, then attach the spout, handle, and cover in the usual manner,

and I have produced a porcelain-lined tea-pot, which to all appearance is an ordinary Britannia or plated pot,

as the metal which forms the outer coating may be plated and burnished or finished in the usual manner.

v For a tea-drawer, that is to say, a'pot in which it is required to steep the tea, a soft-metal outside would be quite as liable to melt as an unlined pot I therefore deem it advisable, in pots for this purpose, to make a hard-metalbottom and the lower portion of the body, as fully described in the patent granted to E, MANNING, June 3, 1862, reissued, June 27, 1865, again reissued, September 26, 1865, for tea and cofiee-pots.

Havingthus fully described my invention, whatl claim as new anduseful, and desire to secure'by Letters Patent, is-

A teaor' coifce-p'otconstructed with a hard-metal or iron body, the inner side'coated with porcelain or similar material, and the enter with soft metal after the lining has been baked, substantially in the manner herein set forth. h

p E. B. MANNING.

Witnesses:

J osnrn Germs, -Jr.,

EDMUNDT. DAVIS. 

